Flag of Mississippi

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The flag of Mississippi is the official flag of the U.S. state of Mississippi. Its design consists of a white magnolia blossom surrounded by 21 stars and the words "In God We Trust" written below, on a blue Canadian pale with two vertical gold borders on a red field. The topmost star, gold and composed of a pattern of five diamonds, "represents ... the ... Native American tribes of ... Mississippi"; the other 20 stars are white and "[represent] Mississippi as the twentieth state" of the U.S. The current flag was adopted on January 11, 2021, replacing the previous design discontinued in 2020. The flag was designed by Rocky Vaughan, "with [the] support [of]" Sue Anna Joe, Kara Giles, and Dominique Pugh. It was chosen by the "Commission to Redesign the Mississippi State Flag", and was submitted for public vote as a ballot measure on November 3, 2020. The bill required that "the design of the Confederate Battle Flag" not be included on the proposed design and the motto "In God We Trust" be...

Read on Wikipedia · Image Rocky Vaughn, Sue Anna Joe, Dominique Pugh, Clay Moss, Kara Giles, Micah Whitson and the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Copyrighted free use